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cinematographer

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Word definitions for cinematographer in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a photographer who operates a movie camera [syn: cameraman , camera operator ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP ) is the chief over the camera crews working on a film , television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1897, agent noun from cinematograph (see cinematography ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context cinematography English) A photographer who operates a movie camera, or who oversees the operations of the cameras and lighting when making a film. 2 One who exhibits motion pictures; a projectionist.

Usage examples of cinematographer.

As a boy he had dreamed of finding this lost family treasure, and here in LA the bummer cinematographer, who was also to die in suspicious circumstances, presented the object to him with a stern warning of the negative powers attached to the relic.

As he looked through the telephoto lens of the viewfinder, he moved the camera from the portico, sweeping across the facade of the cathedral, then panning across the crowd of tourists and pilgrims, as if capturing the entire scene on video, an amateur cinematographer.

Byers identified it as the knife he had given to the cinematographer, a knife that, he said, his wife, Melissa, had given to him a few years before as a Christmas present.

He wondered if there were more jobs for cinematographers in New York than in L.

Stars, producers, director, supporting players, extras, scenery and locations, set designers, cinematographers, special effects, composer, costumers, it's a costume drama isn't it?

I'm happy for them all, but there's a question that gnaws away inside my head: What if I'd done the same for a hundred black writers, editors, field producers, and cinematographers on my projects over the years?

The ironic thing is that cinematographers and film directors have struggled for years to try to make up for their inability to do what fiction does so easily: tell us what's going on inside a character's mind.

Had they taken the tram to the end of the line young Kenneth would actually have seen the Emerald City, pretty much as Dorothy, Toto, and company had approached it in 1939 on a yellow brick road that was partly on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soundstage and partly in the box of tricks of a process cinematographer.